If they're going for a "prequel", it's obvious they had to ditch the previous script because that was 100% a "remake."

I always thought a sequel where a rescue team investigate the ruins of the station would have been cool, kinda Aliens-esque. Like the computer game that came out a few years back. Glad it's being rewritten coz the synopsis did sound exactly the same as Carpenter's version. Hence, a remake. And if they did decide to remake it agaub make it different to the 1982 version like they did to the the original

Maybe they caught wind of how much the fans hated the synopsis.

You guys never seemed to understand the synopsis. It focused on the team that went missing BEFORE Kurt Russle's team arrived.

This is going to be very difficult to follow a classic like carpenters the thing.

hmmmm, i think this will either suck hard or be quite special - at least its not a remake. KM

I agree with you static, Its the story before the events that took place before 1982 with russels team.

You know the concept is great I dont know how much I like the idea that Mcready's brother is in the swede's camp. Not sure if they are still going with that or not, hope there not. However I am very open to it I would have liked a direct sequel and to see what happened to childs and Mc. Also if one of them was the creature. Anyway if it's a smart graphic dark horror film like the original LAFANTASTIC. Also what ever happened to Rob Bottin the special effects guy he was like the next greatst artist in the world. After the eighties he was kinda just gone.

good. i was a little concerned about the part where mcready's brother went to the original alien landing spot because he heard fats domino singing 'i found my thrill on blueberry hill.'

Too bad. After Moore's amazing work on Battlestar Galactica, I can only assume his script was too 'smart' to be marketable. My guess, given the history of the crap we have been getting from the major studios for the last few years, is that this is less of a 'cleaning up' than a 'dumbing down.'

This was a remake from the get go when you read the synopsis. They tried to sell it as a prequel when it was the same damn thing as Carpenter's. really dumb on their part to think horror fans would not pick up on that.

Did you even read the synopsis yourself, Static? "An American scientific expedition to the frozen wastes of the Antarctic is interrupted by a group of seemingly mad Norwegians pursuing and shooting a dog. The helicopter pursuing the dog crashes leaving no explanation for the chase. During the night, the dog mutates and attacks other dogs in the cage and members of the team that investigate. The team soon realize that an alien life-form with the ability to take over bodies is on the loose and they don't know who may already have been taken over." - That is EXACTLY the same plot as the 1982 version. It was not what happened before the events of the movie, IT WAS THE EVENTS OF THE MOVIE. Urgo, a remake!

Horror Writer: Static is right. The Thing movie is a prequel depicting the Norwegian team's encounter with the alien. The "official" synopsis to which you refer is inaccurate - it mistakenly combines the synopsis of both the Prequel and the original movie.

Next big name in horror? What for writing remakes and prequels? You guys sure are suckers.

exactly! it combines the synopsis' so why are you still posting that damn synopsis?!?!?!

I agree with trioxin. If the synopsis was accurate, then this was as much of a prequel as Rob Zombies Halloween, and I seem to remember that beeing reffered to as a remake.

I don't think any of us should know what this flick is going to have to offer. We could talk this to death until the movie itself becomes anti-climatic. It's gonna be a "Prequel"...right? And we know very little about what happened. We just know that it WAS a slightly similar situation in a VERY similar location as the first one. Will someone please wake me up when this movie gets released?

Eric Heisserer is nothing but a proffesionaly hired literary RAPIST. Do a little research on the Nightmare on Elm Street Remake script. Its an absalute abomination with no respect for the source material. Just like this project. The guy is lying through his teeth when he says he "Addores" Carpentor's work. He's over 40, and popped out of nowhere as a technical staff for Strange Adventures. A one hit wonder who'll do anything for payment. He's only good for castrating good work until its nothing but assembly line standardized Hollywood crap. I hope he wins a Darwin Award.

I like Horror Writers idea I think that could work. But anything set in the station would just be too similar to the original - I think they should just make a sequel, with nothing to do with the first film, just an all new setting, characters and thing. Here's what I think should happen: Its starts with a spaceship hitting the ocean, then later a fishing trawler notices something on the radar. The captains dog starts to bark as they reel in a net full of fish. then it cuts to an oil rig in the middle of nowhere where we are introduced to the main characters - a skeleton crew working in isolation, the trawler crashes into the oil rig, they go to investigate but there is nobody onboard except the dog - and then you can figure out the rest.

all i can say is, who ever finally makes this film, they better do a bleedin gud job. . . . .

I always thought the NORWEGIAN guy's story would make a good movie, just like the carnage that undoubtly happened on LV426 in Aliens before the marines got there. The thing is: NONE OF THOSE NORWEIGANS SPOKE ENGLISH!!!!! It'll be like a foreign movie with subtitles!!!! Wonder how theyll tackle that.